Category: Jeff Goes to Iceland

After getting a pretty great brunch the day before, for Day 9 we figured we should check out a place across the street called Paris Café. Not only that, but we had a parking ticket that was good until Monday morning so we figured we needed to maximize those 200 ISK and get the most for our Krona. With a […]

On Day 6 we decided to try to get as much sleep as possible, even if we couldn’t do it on Iceland time, just to catch up. As such we checked out a few things around Reykjavik instead of heading out of the city (both for less driving while tired and for the fact that we really didn’t have many […]

The unfortunate thing today really was the rain. It’s been basically on the verge of raining the entire time we’ve been here so far, which hasn’t been bad but not great either. No chance of seeing the Northern Lights with this much cloud, even though I check for stars every night. Today though, the water wasn’t helping when I wanted […]

I had meant to mention in one of the earlier posts about the situation with this hotel. It is a pretty nice hotel, in fact very nice. With several oddly amusing caveats. The room has a tiled floor at the entrance and into the bathroom, which is heated and feels delightful when walking on it. Pro. Con: when you sit […]

I really did not expect nearly as much issue with jet lag as I have had, especially with only a 6-hour time difference, but it becomes difficult when your body wants to sleep and can’t and then you maybe take a nap a bit later and now my body just doesn’t know what to do. I ended up falling asleep […]

Back in August of this year I received a random text asking if I wanted to go to Iceland at the beginning of September. It was an unexpected offer and one that I certainly could not/would not turn down. September was a bad time to go though, with all the other traveling I’d been doing this year, so I proposed […]